Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] as a " in BNC.
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1 | His political goals were quite contrasting — Weber had no objection to seeing his native Germany develop as a capitalist state overseen by a parliament . |
2 | In the event , Burnell goes as a dependable foot soldier and Wright as a tight-head who proved his versatility by scrummaging so solidly at loose-head against Jeff Probyn . |
3 | Its origins are lost in antiquity but the Rock has probably ben used as a fortress from the Iron Age . |
4 | And third , how has the central system for planning and controlling spending in Whitehall changed as a consequence of the ‘ hard times ’ ? |
5 | Swindon say as a player he is worth a million pounds , and they should be compensated accordingly . |
6 | April 9 , 1944 , brought the crew their tenth mission , on what Dan described as a ‘ Long haul ’ to the FW 190 plant at Marienburg , in East Prussia . |
7 | The PLO failed as a leadership , not as an idea . |
8 | Indream , Dana qualified as a real person among zombies anyway . |
9 | The point will be made to the world that Mexico stands as a nation for the principle that a healthy environment is essential for the common future of humanity , with particular stress on the quality of life our children will inherit . |
10 | After the meeting of Nov. 14 , it was announced that agreement had been reached on forming a Union of Sovereign States , which Gorbachev described as a union of " Confederal Democratic States " . |
11 | Ten years later , George had become a woollen cloth dresser but Smith ( as he was normally known ) walked 3 miles each day to Samuel Fox 's new steelworks at Stocksbridge to work as a steel temperer . |
12 | In the aftermath of the Bush visit , US troops began patrolling parts of Panama City , a move which Foreign Minister Julio Linares described as a " flagrant violation " of the bilateral Panama Canal Treaty of 1903 , which accorded sovereign rights to the USA only in the Canal Zone . |
13 | Landscape gardener Timothy Griffin married midwife Sheena Catto in what Sheena 's mother Ann described as a ‘ perfectly charming ’ ceremony . |
14 | With the dreadful simplicity that orders the movement Hegel erected as a system , society trots along before my eyes reproducing to perfection the mechanism of the death struggle : the reduction of a ‘ person , to a ‘ nobody ’ to the position of ‘ other ’ — the inexorable plot of racism . |
15 | It soon became apparent the way we were being footed about , we would have more chance of convincing Rupert Murdoch to stand as a Member of Parliament for the Labour Party . |
16 | Deborah Manley trained as a social worker but has spent most of her working life in publishing . |
17 | Between 1957 and 1961 , Höckelmann trained as a sculptor with Karl Hartung , but is also an impressive draughtsman and painter influenced by Expressionism and Abstraction . |
18 | After this phase there follows what Freud described as a period of latency during which the sexuality of a child lies dormant . |
19 | That is to say , Picasso uses as a starting point the same logical or rational analysis of volume that he had evolved in his Negroid paintings . |
20 | He was a big man , crammed into a tweed suit despite the weather , and flanked by his wife , done up in what even Edward recognised as a seriously competitive dress . |
21 | The impact is often profound , with the MIS acting as a catalyst for developing a milieu in which the quantitative and qualitative aspects of approaches to systematic review can be balanced and integrated . |
22 | In his theology — largely spoken : all his four books were printed addresses -he had begun to experience what John Hick describes as a ‘ Copernican revolution ’ . |
23 | From there comes Oer , which Rex describes as a primitive beer ; a dry-hopped Ara ; Boscuen which means rabbit of the forest , a dry beer and one he particularly enjoys . |
24 | In a history of Scaitcliffe School in Egham , Surrey , Mr Vickers recalled a knee injury Mr Branson suffered as a boy of 12 which meant he could never play contact sports again . |
25 | Poshekhonov babbled as a stream runs over rocks . |
26 | Pakistan acted as a link between SEATO and CENTO , while Turkey performed the same function between CENTO and NATO . |
27 | Everyone on the bridge of the Raubvogel ducked as a pane of glass was blown apart . |
28 | A violent , harrowing but oddly tender adaptation of Hubert Selby 's famous novel set in a harsh , poverty-stricken Brooklyn opens as a strike at a local factory explodes into confrontation . |
29 | In 1557 Carleton served as a captain at St Quentin and later in life ( 1573 ) renewed his military career as treasurer to the Irish expedition of Walter Devereux , first Earl of Essex [ q.v . ] . |
30 | Cumberland was on record as believing that a battle without a cannonade was like a dance without music and Culloden began as a gunners ’ battle . |